Progress?

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 1 00:20:12 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 6:59 PM, David A. De Graaf <dad at datix.us> wrote:


> Give us back an intelligible display of boot progress.

What's wrong with removing "quiet" and "rhgb" from the "kernel" line?


> Give us back a simple way to see what services are running, started,
> and failed in a concise format.

File an RFE bug against systemctl for whatever functionality you think
is missing.


> Give us back the mount command - that shows only the actual physical
> filesystems that are mounted - in a readable format.

"lsblk" and "findmnt" are your friends.


> Give us back a humanly comprehensible device naming system.

If you mean device names of NICs, you can uninstall biosdevname and
have them named ethX again.


> Give us back the reboot command that doesn't hang the system, along with
> informative progress status reports.

> Give us back nfs and autofs that work, and which can shutdown if network
> connectivity has failed.

If you've encountered bugs in the latter two points, have you filed bug reports?


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